Meshel Laurie says a message from Georgie Gardner helped her through a difficult time.

The 45-year-old comedian and radio/TV presenter opened up on the TV Blackbox podcast about how she was experiencing a particularly dark time earlier this year when she received a message from the Today host.

While Laurie did not go into detail about what had caused her to spiral to that dark place -- this was just a preview of a longer interview -- as someone who is in the public eye she has been candid about many parts of her personal life, including how IVF led to the breakdown of her marriage but the joyous arrival of her twins Dali and Louise, who are now nine.

Meshel Laurie frequently appears on programs like 'The Project' and 'Have You Been Paying Attention?'. (Getty)

"You know when you're at that point and you just need someone to reach out? Was she that person who got you through that night?" asked podcast host Rob McKnight, a former morning TV executive producer.

"This is going to sound so bizarre, but yes!" Laurie said. "There was something about her message that just… Like I was embarrassed, but… you know normally when you get embarrassed you get angry, particularly when you're drunk. But I don't know, for some reason it didn't make me angry, there was just something about it that I got it."

Social media had played a role in the way Laurie was feeling, especially since she often voices her opinions on her platforms, and Gardner, 48, tried to convince her to ignore the noise.

"She was just really kind, and she was just saying everyone used to say to Charlotte [Dawson], 'Switch it off, mate.' Like, let it go, it doesn't matter, none of this is important, just go to bed, get some sleep, tomorrow's another day," Laurie continued. "And I did. I just switched it off, I put it down. Woke up in the morning -- because I was so used to waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Oh, no, what did I say? What did I tweet last night? What did I call the Prime Minister?' And just being really embarrassed and waking up and deleting, and hoping that people that I really liked didn't see them."

Gardner's words had already made an impact on Laurie -- something that surprised her given some of her own friends hadn't even reached out to see how she was feeling.

"That morning I woke up and read her messages again and thought, 'What a nice lady!' She's got enough to deal with in her actual life, and I had so many real friends who were not stepping in for me, were not contacting me, and I knew they must be seeing it, and they were not -- and still, frankly, haven't. But yeah, what a nice lady!"